Founder Resources
Here is a curated archive and list for founders to find useful resources from across the internet. You can segment all the information for any topic. You can suggest resources and provide general feedback here.
TOPICS
- Best Practices 9
- Board Management 6
- Business & News 5
- Business Model 1
- Cap Table Management 3
- Compensation 8
- Customer Acquisition 1
- Customer Interviews 7
- Data Room 1
- Decks & Pitching 10
- Dilution 1
- Financial Forecasting 1
- Fundraising 19
- Goals & Objectives 8
- Growth 4
- Hiring 7
- Investor Communication & updates 4
- Investor Research & Outreach 6
- Layoffs 1
- Metrics 10
- Onboarding 1
- Operations 8
- Pricing 5
- Product Market Fit 3
- Product Strategy 5
- Startups 22
- Stories 2
- Talent Acquisition 3
- Tech 6
- Term Sheets 9
- Thought Leaders 7
- Tools 2
- Valuations 3
- Venture Capital 10
- advice 1
- education 1
THEMES
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Blogs & Newsletters
14
- Sep 21, 2021 Benedict Evans
- Oct 21, 2020 Lenny Rachitsky
- Oct 4, 2020 Marc Andreessen
- Sep 20, 2020 First Round Review
- Sep 20, 2020 Andrew Chen
- Sep 17, 2020 a16z
- Sep 17, 2020 20MinuteVC by Harry Stebbings
- Sep 17, 2020 Stratechery by Ben Thompson
- Sep 17, 2020 Point Nine Capital
- Sep 17, 2020 Patrick Collison
- Sep 17, 2020 Essays by Paul Graham
- Sep 17, 2020 Both Sides of the Table by Mark Suster
- Sep 17, 2020 AVC by Fred Wilson
- Sep 17, 2020 Above The Crowd by Bill Gurley
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Books
3
- Feb 1, 2021 Zero to One by Peter Thiel
- Oct 23, 2020 Venture Deals by Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson
- Oct 23, 2020 High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil
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Fundraising
38
- Feb 17, 2022 Open Deck by OpenVC: Compiled Pitch Decks for Inspiration
- Aug 9, 2021 150+ Pitch Deck Examples From the Most Successful Startups by PitchDeckHunt
- Aug 9, 2021 Investor Pitch Training by BaseTemplates
- Mar 17, 2021 Good VCs, Bad VCs by Christoph Janz
- Mar 17, 2021 Investor Update Email Template by Leo Polovets
- Mar 17, 2021 How to Build a Great Series A Pitch and Deck by Janelle Tam
- Mar 17, 2021 Your Startup Valuation, Explained Simply by Fred Destin
- Mar 12, 2021 OpenVC
- Jan 29, 2021 First-Time Founders: How to Select the Best Fundraising Strategy by Lolita Taub
- Jan 25, 2021 VC List: No Warm Intro Required by Yuliya Bel
- Jan 25, 2021 How to Make a Cap Table by Nivi
- Jan 19, 2021 The Non-Obvious Guide to Fundraising by NFX
- Jan 13, 2021 Why Do Some Startups Get Funded? by DocSend
- Jan 13, 2021 Pitch Deck Template by Sequoia Capital
- Jan 12, 2021 Playbook: How to Raise a Smart Series A by Alpaca VC
- Nov 19, 2020 31 Pitch Deck Slide Examples: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly by Crunchbase
- Oct 23, 2020 Signal NFX: Investing Network for Founders, VCs, Scouts, and Angels
- Oct 23, 2020 Visual Introduction to VC Financing by Dan Lopuch
- Oct 23, 2020 SAFE and Convertible Note Calculator by Carta
- Oct 23, 2020 How To Write a Great Investor Update by Carta
- Oct 23, 2020 Why Investor Updates Are Really, Really Important by Jason Calacanis
- Oct 23, 2020 The Economics of Term Sheets by a16z
- Oct 23, 2020 Updating Your Seed Investors by NextView Ventures
- Oct 21, 2020 Series A Guide by Y Combinator
- Oct 13, 2020 Pitch Deck Storytelling Template by Pillar VC
- Oct 12, 2020 Raising Seed Capital? Here’s My Guide on How To Do It Successfully by Parul Singh
- Oct 2, 2020 VC Guide
- Oct 2, 2020 Ridiculously Detailed Fundraising Guide by Founder Collective
- Oct 2, 2020 Fundraising Playbook by Emergence Cap
- Sep 18, 2020 Enhanced Model Term Sheet by NVCA and Aumni
- Sep 17, 2020 Series A Term Sheet by Y Combinator
- Sep 17, 2020 Series Seed Term Sheet and Equity Financing Package by Cooley
- Sep 17, 2020 How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders by Mark Suster
- Sep 17, 2020 The Three Terms You Must Have In A Venture Investment by Fred Wilson
- Sep 17, 2020 The Option Pool Shuffle by Nivi at Venture Hacks
- Sep 17, 2020 Negotiating Term Sheets: Focus on What’s Important by Matthew Bartus
- Sep 17, 2020 Essential Terms by HOLLOWAY
- Sep 17, 2020 Understanding Term Sheets by HOLLOWAY
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Management
21
- Sep 27, 2024 ChartMogul SaaS Benchmarks Report: Growth Trends & SaaS Benchmarks From Studying Over 2,100 SaaS Businesses
- Mar 17, 2021 Best Hiring Practices by Fred Wilson
- Feb 4, 2021 How Do I Recruit Great Talent for my Startup by Marvin Liao
- Jan 13, 2021 Startup Employee Salary Data by Alex Cohen
- Jan 12, 2021 Salary and Equity Benchmarks by Leo Polovets
- Oct 23, 2020 The Best Approach to the Worst Conversation: "You're Fired" by First Round
- Oct 23, 2020 Employee Equity by Sam Altman
- Oct 23, 2020 How to Hire Your First Engineer by Y Combinator
- Oct 23, 2020 The Equity Equation by Paul Graham
- Oct 23, 2020 Onboarding at Startups by Homebrew
- Oct 23, 2020 The Process of Sourcing Talent by Homebrew
- Oct 23, 2020 How to Hire by Sam Altman
- Oct 23, 2020 Updating Your Seed Investors by NextView Ventures
- Oct 23, 2020 Preparing a Board Deck by Sequoia
- Oct 23, 2020 The Board Of Directors - Selecting, Electing & Evolving by Fred Wilson
- Oct 23, 2020 The Board Of Directors: Board Meetings by Fred Wilson
- Oct 23, 2020 How to Be a Good Board Member by Mark Suster
- Oct 23, 2020 The Perfect Board by Fred Wilson
- Oct 13, 2020 Compensation at Startups by Homebrew
- Oct 13, 2020 The Right Way to Grant Equity to Your Employees by First Round
- Sep 17, 2020 The Option Pool Shuffle by Nivi at Venture Hacks
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Operations
13
- Sep 27, 2024 ChartMogul SaaS Benchmarks Report: Growth Trends & SaaS Benchmarks From Studying Over 2,100 SaaS Businesses
- Mar 17, 2021 16 More Startup Metrics by a16z
- Mar 17, 2021 16 Startup Metrics by a16z
- Mar 17, 2021 What is Good Retention? by Lenny Rachitsky
- Mar 17, 2021 How to Increase Your Retention by Lenny Rachitsky
- Mar 17, 2021 Financial Planning for SaaS Startups by Christoph Janz
- Mar 17, 2021 KPI Dashboard for Early-Stage SaaS Startups by Christoph Janz
- Mar 17, 2021 Cohort Analysis in SaaS by Christoph Janz
- Mar 17, 2021 Investor Update Email Template by Leo Polovets
- Mar 17, 2021 A Founder’s Guide to Startup Metrics by Baz Banai
- Oct 23, 2020 Drive Growth by Picking the Right Lane — A Customer Acquisition Playbook for Consumer Startups by First Round
- Oct 21, 2020 Most Important Bottom-up SaaS Metrics to Track by Lenny Rachitsky
- Oct 13, 2020 SaaS Tools for Startups by Blissfully
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Podcasts
7
- Feb 9, 2021 How to Start a Startup by Sam Altman
- Oct 2, 2020 This Week In Startups by Jason Calacanis
- Sep 17, 2020 The Knowledge Project by Shane Parrish
- Sep 17, 2020 Masters of Scale by Reid Hoffman
- Sep 17, 2020 How I Built This by NPR
- Sep 17, 2020 a16z
- Sep 17, 2020 20MinuteVC by Harry Stebbings
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Product
16
- Mar 17, 2021 The Hidden World of Pricing by NFX
- Mar 17, 2021 Evaluating a (Marketplace) Business Idea by Lenny Rachitsky
- Mar 17, 2021 A Quantitative Approach to Product Market Fit by Tribe Capital
- Jan 26, 2021 The Hidden World of Pricing by NFX
- Oct 27, 2020 How To Price Your SaaS Product by Lenny Rachitsky
- Oct 27, 2020 The B2B SaaS Pricing Masterclass by ChartMogul
- Oct 23, 2020 Drive Growth by Picking the Right Lane — A Customer Acquisition Playbook for Consumer Startups by First Round
- Oct 13, 2020 Pricing Your Product by Sequoia
- Oct 13, 2020 How to Talk to Users by Eric Migicovsky
- Oct 13, 2020 How to Run a User Interview by Y Combinator
- Oct 13, 2020 How to Define Your Product Strategy by Gibson Biddle
- Oct 13, 2020 How To: User Interviews by Pillar VC
- Oct 13, 2020 User Research and User Testing by UX Collective
- Oct 13, 2020 Guide to UX Research by UXR
- Oct 4, 2020 How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit by First Round
- Oct 4, 2020 How To Know if You Have Product Market Fit by Lenny Rachitsky
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Resources
15
- Feb 17, 2022 Open Deck by OpenVC: Compiled Pitch Decks for Inspiration
- Aug 9, 2021 150+ Pitch Deck Examples From the Most Successful Startups by PitchDeckHunt
- Aug 9, 2021 Investor Pitch Training by BaseTemplates
- Aug 9, 2021 How to build great Pitch Deck Slides by BaseTemplates
- Apr 26, 2021 VC Deals
- Feb 15, 2021 Startup Resources
- Feb 9, 2021 How to Start a Startup by Sam Altman
- Jan 25, 2021 VC List: No Warm Intro Required by Yuliya Bel
- Jan 25, 2021 Venture Hacks by Nivi
- Jan 19, 2021 The Non-Obvious Guide to Fundraising by NFX
- Oct 13, 2020 SaaS Tools for Startups by Blissfully
- Oct 2, 2020 Fundraising Playbook by Emergence Cap
- Sep 24, 2020 Where Latinx Founders Can Find Funding, Resources, and More by Lolita Taub
- Sep 24, 2020 Founder's Guide by Pillar VC
- Sep 21, 2020 Founder Library by Steve Schlafman